Higher tuition fee for second master's degree

Students who have already completed a master’s programme in the Netherlands pay a higher tuition fee for their second master’s:

	2012-2013	2013-2014
second master’s in humanities, law or social sciences	€ 14.000	€ 14.400
second master’s in the field of science or in Biomedical Sciences	€ 17.700	€ 18.100
second master’s in Medicine	€ 20.800	€ 21.300

Leiden University master’s students who start their second master’s in Leiden directly after their first pay the low statutory fee.

Some other students are also exempted from this higher fee. For more information please see the international students website. Dutch and EU/EEA/Swiss/Surinamese students are exempted from this higher fee if:

• the second master’s is a master’s programme in Medicine, provided the first master’s was not a health care master’s programme.
• the second master’s is a teacher-training programme
• the first master’s was a non government subsidised programme

Please note: for some master’s you pay a higher tuition fee because the programmes are not subsidised by the government.

All students pay this higher fee, regardless of whether they have already completed a Dutch master’s programme. The programmes in question are:

• International Relations and Diplomacy
• Air and Space Law (Advanced)
• European Business Law (Advanced)
• International Tax Law (Advanced)
• Public International Law (Advanced)
• Vitality and Ageing